Use MariaDB instead of MySQL in my Rails project

Question

How can I use MariaDB instead of MySQL in my Rails project?

When I try to install mysql2 gem it returns error,because mysqlclient was not found.

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Answer 1

Probably you are getting error related with mariadb_config. Something like

Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    /home/dev/.rbenv/versions/2.1.5/bin/ruby extconf.rb --with-mysql-config=/usr/bin/mariadb_config
checking for ruby/thread.h... yes
checking for rb_thread_call_without_gvl() in ruby/thread.h... yes
checking for rb_thread_blocking_region()... yes
checking for rb_wait_for_single_fd()... yes
checking for rb_hash_dup()... yes
checking for rb_intern3()... yes
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Cannot find mysql_config at /usr/bin/mariadb_config
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*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary
libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more details. 

You just need to go to /usr/bin directory and run this command

sudo ln -nfs mysql_config mariadb_config

This will solve your problem.